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  • Audio CD (7 May 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Big Dada
  • ASIN: B00005B4F1
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 78,539 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Apt A
2. Apt A
3. And All You Can Do Is Laugh
4. And All You Can Do Is Laugh
5. I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again
6. I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again
7. JimmyBreeze
8. JimmyBreeze
9. Clouddead No 5
10. Clouddead No 5
11. Bike
12. Bike

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Clouddead's self-titled debut is hard-to-classify stuff; if you described it as lo-fi ambient spoken word meets surreal hip-hop with an indie rock bent, you'd be leaving a lot out. The CD compiles previously released 10"s created by MCs Dose One and Why? and producer Odd Nosdam--all members of Anticon, the West Coast hip-hop collective. The MCs rap, recite and sing words that make Beck's lyrics sound tame and fussy by comparison. Their declamation can be goofy, swaggering, funny, swinging, nasal; you name it. This extremely open-ended and varied use of language recalls the work of the sonically inclined poet Edwin Torres. Sometimes the language on this disc can be almost inaudible; then it's just another element in Nosdam's lovely and murky music. Albums this odd often confuse people. They also can be, and Clouddead is, extremely compelling. --Fred Cisterna

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars imagine BoC mixed with surrealist rap, 5 Feb 2005
By Simon J. Whight "typical_moody_dj" (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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A sticker on the front of the CD states that its the sound of Radiohead's Kid A and Cypress Hill essentially put into a blender and given a good old whirring.

Obviously they had their head stuck up a dark musty place when coming up with that opinion because it sounds nothing like that at all! I first heard Apt A Part 2 on a Big Dada compilation and knew I had to get it immediately. Almost the sound of Boards Of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children set to surrealist rapping.

The album is pretty similar in mood, the dark grainy samples, eerie synths and the most bizarre occurances you'll ever hear in rap music. Each track can flit between several moods, breaking down into bizarre samples of old 8 bit computer games, crazy percussion, backwards rapping and all sorts! Its a collection of cLOUDDEAD 10" single releases and sometimes I find it a bit hard to digest in one sitting, but plucking out the Apt 2A, Bike and Jimmy Breeze pt 2 tracks always raises a few hairs. cLOUDDEAD No 5 also stands out with its droning ambience, not quite electronic , something more organic.

As a first step into cLOUDDEAD I'd recommend you head to the more coherant Ten, but this should quickly follow as a second purchase ... you'll never hear rap like this ever.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo-Fi/80's Bowie Hip-Hop?, 2 Jun 2001
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Before this album my appreciation for Hip-Hop streched only as far as De La Soul's 'De La Soul is Dead'. This is explained by my finding Hip-Hop relatively monotonous: beat...beat...beat...scratch...beat, etc...

Then cLOUDDEAD come along and destroyed all my unjustified stereotypes about the Hip-Hop. To combine high quality Lo-Fi, industrial rythmes, with intelligent(mainly ironic) rap lyrics is excecuted originally and with crystal clear genius.

If you like Hip-Hop: buy this. If you like Lo-Fi: buy this. If you like the middle section of David Bowie's 'Heroes': buy this.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars cLOUD-hOP, 19 Jul 2001
By Stanley Beaker (Beachy Head, England) - See all my reviews
Surely this is `hip-hop`, it features the rapping, the looped beats, the amusing interludes, but then, well, it also features chanting, a food-blender solo, Tom Waits percussion, Olivia Tremor Control harmonies, dense and mystifying lyrics (`the man with the negative wingspan eats sourdough Sue bread, and hits his highest notes on tippietoe`), and there are no songs, no repetition only evermore curious pieces strung seamlessly together. Whereas hip-hop is traditionally a communal, outward expression of life on the streets these recordings appear emerging from a dank, haunted cellar or from a distant alien broadcast. At times it is foreign and completely unintelligible, then it briefly emerges from the crackling fog with a memorable hook (`physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable`, sings Why? sounding like Ian Brown) or an amusing field recording, reminding the listener that this is still an American trio, but always it descends into unsettling synthetic soundscapes that bear a closer relation to the ambience of Eno and the avant-garde than the insistent rhythms and samples that characterize hip-hop. There are the odd sections that are not as interesting simply because they sound vaguely familiar; the Jurassic 5-esque scratching and sample collages for example. The album demands an attentive, patient listener to peel away the layers of eerie mystery and discover the most enthralling, bizarre and, thankfully, the most unclassifiable album of the year.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Pop
This album grows with every listen. Buy 'Ten' too.
Published on 28 Oct 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Clouddead
This is hip-hop.no doubt about it. From twisted ryhmes, unique wordplay and sublime beats this album defines a new era for a genre.
I had been a fan of Odd Nosdam and Why? Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2004 by fenderstrat32

5.0 out of 5 stars a few clouddead quotes...
"Bizarre but essential... gloriously uncategorisable. A difficult record, but one whose astonishing inventiveness more than repays the work you will need to put in" - THE SUNDAY... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2003 by etienne

5.0 out of 5 stars Patience is a virtue
I originally heard Clouddead on a Big Dada sampler (also highly recommended), and bought this album based on the strength of one track. My initial reaction was confusion! Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2003 by The Westons

5.0 out of 5 stars kidsonswingsthinkingaboutflyingkitesinsequoiaonmushrooms
this album is amazing. it's terrific. i've been playing it in lieu of anything else over and over again. Read more
Published on 12 Jul 2003 by b to the middle initial to the g

5.0 out of 5 stars Harmonious, 5pm sunshine, wide horizon, dreamtime beauty
The more I listen to this album the more I think its a great one, truly an original blend of hiphop and a more loving boards of canada with a little of Djshadows tingly magic... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2002 by Pope Benedict 9th

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty abstract genius
yeah this is some truely inventive stuff. i can guarentee you will no thave heard anything like this ever before. Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2002 by undero

5.0 out of 5 stars Abstract, Personal, Powerful
Below someone titled the album nonsense. I can't believe that any of it is nonsense, it's just too personal to derive the literal meaning from much of the lyrics. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange, yet strangely compelling
This is perhaps the most unique hip-hop album i've ever heard apart from perhaps some of the other work by the artists on the album. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars mildly entertaining nonsense
I had high hopes for this album after hearing doseone with boom bip on 'the Birdcatcher Returns' - really good abstract hiphop... but it failed to live up to them. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2001 by MR D E FULLER

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